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Spread The Love: Spotlight Your Employees in Your Company Newsletter

Newsletters typically provide content that’s 80% promotional and 20% educational. Sticking with the former, there can be information about new products and services, specials, or

How to Structure Your Bonuses

Remaining competitive as an employer can be challenging for small businesses, especially as we are still dealing with the economic disruptions that the pandemic has

Making an Internal Move: How to Help Employees Find a New Role Within Your Company

One of the biggest mistakes small businesses make is to fail to nurture their top performers. As we’ve previously written, there are best practices to

How Far Should You Take Price-Matching When a Top-Performing Employee Has Another Offer?

The expression, “The only constant is change” couldn’t apply more to the workplace.  As a business owner, you don’t need me to tell you that

It’s Still Sexual Harassment Even If You’re Working Remotely

A growing remote workforce has changed the way many organizations do business today. However, something that hasn’t changed is the risk of sexual harassment despite

How To Determine When Something An Employee Tells You In Confidence Needs To Be Reported To HR

This is a real conundrum. If an employee comes to you and shares information confidentially that would otherwise be reported to HR, how do you

Employees Often Leave Because of Their Managers Rather Than Their Jobs

57 percent of employees quit because of their boss. Yikes. This is one of those facts that many business owners hate to hear. It means

Stop Using These 15 Company Clichés

Buzzwords and clichés are part of most company cultures, but why are we so intent on using them?  The more you toss out those tiring

What Happens to Your Staff When You Sell Your Company?

You’ve worked your whole career for the possibility that you may one day be able to sell your company. You’ve reached that stage where you

Best Ways to Boost Employee Satisfaction in the Near Post-Covid Era

Earlier this year, we discussed what a return to the office might look like as Covid cases began to dwindle. It turned out that a

4 Ways to Recognize Your Employees For Labor Day

Traditionally, companies give out bonuses and gifts around the winter holidays, and while that is a magnanimous practice, these generous gestures don’t necessarily surprise employees.

5 Benefits of Recruiting and Retaining Gen Z Candidates and Employees

Kids today…blah, blah, blah. The younger generations are the largest ones, and whether or not you believe in the George Bernard Shaw quote, “Youth is